“I define empathy as the ability to put yourself in somebody else’s shoes and to understand and connect with what they are feeling - to feel what they’re feeling. You first have to understand the world as they see it through their eyes.”

Good listeners listen to what people say, and great listeners notice what people don’t say. When you know the neuroscience of listening, you realize that people can think up to nine times faster than they can speak. So the first thing they say is probably between ten and fourteen percent of what they are thinking.

"I find that the best, most meaningful networking relationships occur inside the context of living your life and being fully present in the opportunities that show up."

“What is happening in the world is not the important part. What is important is the meaning that we give to what is happening. It’s not about the world, it’s about the way we see the world.”

“The status quo is always going to be the result of entropy and inertia, unless somebody takes action to do something remarkably different.”

"We can become who we are through the gracing help of others."

“I would encourage people to think about this concept of playgrounds and how they can get up every day and turn a practice into a habit into a system that allows them to have fun in their lives.”

“Great storytellers find stories everywhere. And what I mean by that is they can take the simplest things and turn them into powerful and effective stories to teach key principles. So, here’s a story about how somebody changed the world. Now I want you to change the world. It can be just a simple day-to-day change that can lead to a change in behavior that you really want.”

“Where there is curiosity, the adult in the child and the child in the adult are awaken. This is how innovation happens.”

“The future pulls us out of the past, and pulls toward the dream, and what’s possible.”

“Our stories can lift us up or they can hold us down. We are responsible for that. We live in a story, and that means we can change it.”

“Really going into purpose work, that takes courage. Leadership is courageous. Leadership – real leadership, authentic, purpose-focused leadership – is not for wimps. It takes courage. You will have to stand up. You will have to face the dragon.”